Ventilating apparatus for rocking-chairs



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J. FERNIE. VENTILATING APPARATUS FOR ROCKING GHAIRS. No. 322,705.Patented July 21, 1885.

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NITED STATES JOHN FERNIE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

VENTILATING APPARATUS FOR ROCKING-CHAIRS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,705, dated July 21,1885.

Application filed July 23, 1883.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN FERNIE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britainand Ireland, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain Improvements in Cooling and Ventilating Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of a certain improve ment in that class of coolingand ventilating devices in which a rocking-chair is provided withbellows apparatus and a blast pipe or conduit for projecting a stream orstreams of air onto the person occupying the chair.

My improvement comprises means for steadying and equalizing the force ofthe blast and for insuring a thorough cooling and ventilating effect dueto the blast.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of arocking-chair with my improved cooling and ventilating device, and Fig.2 a rear view of the same.

A is a rocking-chair of ordinary construc tion, with which is combined abellows structure comprising the two bel'lowsboxes a b, having hingedflaps d and inlet-valves e, and

communicating with the expansion or pressure chamber f through openingsprovided with outlet-valves g, the bellows a being contracted on theforward movement of the chair and the bellows b on the backward movementof the same, so that a continuous flow of air into the pressure-chamberf is caused.

The flaps (I may be so heavy as to fall by their own weight, as also maythe top of the pressure-chamber f, or the latter may be acted upon bysprings, as shown, andeach flap d is preferably furnished withanti-friction rollers h for running on the floor.

V The pressure chamber f communicates through a passage, i, in thebellows-box b with a pipe, B, secured to the back of the chair,

of the occupant of the chair.

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preferably in the center, and the upper end of this pipe is bent overthe chair-back so as to discharge the air upon the head and face Inorder, however, to provide for a more extended agitation of the air ofthe apartment, and consequently a better ventilating effect than wouldbe caused by the discharge of the air directly from the end ofthe pipe,I combine with said pipe a reaction-wheel operated by the blast andcarrying fanblades, as shown, whereby the escap ing blast is caused toaffect the air at and near the mouth of the pipe B and thus causecurrents in the room or apartment in which the chair is situated, thesecurrents of air being mingled with the cool blast which escapes inwhirling jets from the reaction-wheel, so that not only is the occupantof the chair directly benefited by the draft but the air of the wholeapartment is cooled and set in motion.

The combined reaction-wheel and fan is similar to that described in myPatent N 0. 280,595, dated July 3, 1883, and hence is not claimed,broadly.

I claim as my invention The combination of a rocking-chair, two pairs ofbellows connected thereto, so as to be operated alternately, apressure-equalizing box, f, receiving the air from both pairs ofbellows, a distributing-pipe, B, communicating with said equalizing-boxyand extending to the top of the chair, and a reaction-wheel carried bythe upper end of the pipe and pro vided with fan-blades, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FERNIE.

Witnesses:

WM. L. NEVIN, R0131. W. FERNIE.

